Feature-length elaborations on quirky, inspiring human-interest stories are generally to be avoided, but I’ll make an exception for A Man Named Pearl. Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson’s brief ...

You couldn’t ask for a more engaging documentary subject than Pearl Fryar, a self-taught topiary gardener whose abstract, otherworldly landscapes have drawn thousands of tourists to his ailing small ...

The I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium on the campus of South Carolina State University will present a screening of the documentary "A Man Named Pearl" with producer-director Scott Galloway as part ...

About 30 years ago, Pearl Fryar wanted to buy a house in Bishopville, S.C. Some locals were resistant: The son of sharecroppers, Fryar looked to them like the kind of guy who "wouldn't keep up his ...

Mike Gibson is the artist in residence at the Pearl Friar Topiary Garden. But who's Pearl Fryar Pearl is the master? Yeah, if you wanna do topiary, you need to learn about pearl. So I started trimming ...

Pearl Fryar parlayed a 15-minute topiary lesson into a garden of sculptured bushes and trees that attracts thousands of visitors each year. Fryar's 3 acres of handiwork are the tourist draw in tiny ...